ONE thing you can never say about being a Coventry City fan is that it is dull!

A season that started in the sunshine with a 2-0 home win against Portsmouth, ended in a creditable draw with promoted Norwich.

Sounds good but the one win in seventeen league games during the middle of the season was bad (to put it mildly) and cost Aidy Boothroyd his job.

Boothroyd's appointment, which few City supporters would have predicted added to the re-signing of fans' favourite Gary McSheffrey, plus another couple of signings including Lee Carsley's, meant we went into the season with a sense of optimism (sounds familiar).

A string of good results at the start of the season saw us lead the Division early on and sitting in sixth place at the start of December.

Then, what I believe was the pivotal moment of the season.

With City playing at home against Norwich and holding their own, Gunnar got sent off to a very questionable decision and over reaction by the Norwich players.

City fought hard but conceded a late goal to lose a game they deserved at least a point from. I don't think we really recovered from that defeat.

Following that game we had suspensions served by King and Gunnar.

We had already lost Clingan and Turner, two of our most influential players, but were about to lose Doyle, McPake and Carsley for the rest of the season.

It wasn't until Andy Thorn took over with his new formation that the early season optimism returned.